A Friendly Visit!

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We had the privilege of visiting one of our dearest friends this weekend and their newly adopted son Levi. We used to go to church with them when we all lived in and around the Cedar Falls area but just don't get to see each other often enough now that they moved to Dubuque and we moved to New Hampton. We decided we would go stay at their house for the weekend and after driving through some horrendous rain we made it there at almost 8:30pm on Friday. Saturday we went to an Arboretum with many flowers and a fish pond where you could feed the fish with food bought in the gift shop. Keziah enjoyed watching the fish eat and fight for every piece. It is a beautiful place but it was extremely hot so we didn't do a whole lot of walking around. We quickly headed back to their house for lunch and naps. During naps, the guys (Micah, Brian, Isaiah and Austin) all went over to a baseball card shop to look around. When they got back Jamie and I got to have a break and go to an awesome consignment shop where I got some really good deals on things for the kids. I even got myself an Abercrombie t-shirt!

Here are the two beauties of the bunch-Naomi and Keziah! It has been a while since they have seen each other but didn't have any trouble settling in to play together! Austin and Isaiah were the same way even tough Isaiah is quite a bit younger. Austin is such a good sport and ended up having a really good time with him and even showed him how to get a good campfire going! Levi had a blast with them all too. He is so carefree and smiley all the time. He enjoyed following the bigger kids around and doing whatever they were doing or he was happy to just play by himself. He is such a sweet boy and adorable too!

Sunday morning we woke up and got our stuff all packed up and then we went to church with them. Since it was Father's Day we thought we would leave right after church and go to my parents' to eat lunch and lay the girls down for their afternoon nap. We had such a great weekend. Too bad it had to come to an end! We love you Steele family! We look forward to the next time we get to hang out with you all!